Biography of G W Harrington, Mississippi Co, AR

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Submitted by: Michael Brown
        Date: Sep 1998
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Bibliography: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas.
Chicago:  Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.

G. W. Harrington. Ever since locating in Mississippi County, Ark., Mr.
Harrington has enjoyed the reputation of being a substantial and
progressive farmer, and has also been considered an intelligent and
thoroughly posted man on all the current topics of the day. His
father, L. R. Harrington, is a Tennesseean, and is now living in that
State in retirement, although he had previously followed the
occupation of farming. He was married there to Miss Brunetta Binkley,
also a native of the State, who gave birth to our subject in 1836, he
being the eldest of their four children. She died in 1873. G. W.
Harrington was reared to a farm life in his native State, and it was
here that he received his early scholastic training, it being only
such as the common schools of his day afforded. At the age of twenty-
two years he began farming for himself, and as it was an occupation
with which he had always been familiar, his success was an assured
fact. In 1857 he emigrated to Arkansas, and for ten years farmed on
rented land near where he now lives, but purchased, in 1865, a farm in
North Chickasawba Township, amounting to eighty acres, partially
improved, and on this fertile farm he has made many more improvements,
and has it nearly all under cultivation. At the breaking out of the
war, he enlisted in the Confederate army, Company H, Fifteenth
Tennessee Regiment, and was in the battles of Belmont, Shiloh,
Perryville and Murfreesboro; and after the last named battle, he
returned to Arkansas, and was married at the close of the war to Miss
Mary Crawford, of Mississippi County, by whom he became the father of
the following children: Lydia, Ida, Lizzie, Nannie, Larkin, Charles,
Samuel, George and Jefferson. Mr. Harrington is quite an active
politician, and a public-spirited citizen. His wife is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.